Roman Army Research!
  • after Rome's war with Hannibal they had spent 80% of their budget.
  • Increase of fraud
  • Wealthy Romans Invested their money abroad
  • People could buy Farms for a very cheap price
  • Small owned farms were unable to compete with new larger farms and would go bankrupt
  • Rome's second war against Carthage reduced the number of people in the Italian countryside. Men had gone off to war. People had died and people had moved to the cities to escape war. Some people had left the countryside to work in the arms industry, and some went to Rome looking for subsistence
  • Slave market became very cheap, too many slaves were being bought losing jobs
  • One of the first professional full-time paid armies
  • A full strength legion has 6,000 men in it
  • To save Money during the war the Romans would stop building roads and other things
  • A typical solider was paid 1,800 denarii
  • The amount of supplies would go down making them more expensive as some farmers would go to war


Current events research!

  • The high cost of war affects our infrastructure, during the war U.S infrastructure projects have been postponed

  • The total cost of war since 2001 is $1,414,113,623,741 and it goes up by the second

  • The price of weapons are very expensive

  • The Iraq war could end up costing more than WWII

  • Most wars in total are very overpriced and cause infrastructure

  • The US debt is 16 trillion

  • In 2010 the US armies budget request was $244.9 billion

  • The Iraq war costed about 810,400,005,994 and goes up by the second



Dear Professor Lewis,
My name is Rosie Bentley and I am currently attending Nagel Middle School, in Ohio. In my social studies class we are doing a project on problems and solutions in The Roman Republic.My topic is High price for military and war and I was wondering if you could please answer some of my questions on modern warfare:1) Does the cost of war affect our infrastructure?2) according to my research we are 16 million dollars in debt, what affects does this have on us?3)How much money can the U.S army request for their budget?

Thanks so very much for your time!Sincerely,Rosie Bentley

Dear Rosie, I am not a historian of the Roman Republic. However, yes. Defense spending takes money away from domestic projects, such has highway construction, health care, and other such projects. Defense spending is over $600 billion annually. It is estimated that we spent 3.3 trillion dollars on the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade. I am not exactly sure of the Army's annual budget. It is a major part of the $600 billion spent annual on defense. Good luck with you project. Prof. Lewis



The romans need to have a limit on the people that join the army, not only do they need to have almost like a “training camp” to see who is fit enough to even be in the army, they need to lower taxes so that not everyone is so in debt that they are forced to join. Infrastructure has been occurring since the romans budget for war is so over the top. They need specific people in the army just to focus building aqueducts and other projects, maybe your first year of the army that is what you do to show your “support. They also need a smaller budget, they should try fundraisers or asking people for some help. The money they spend on war is so much that they are forgetting more important things.

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